Lotta’s Exhibition
Lotta, one of our good Icelandic friends who we met in California is a proper arty photographer, with impressive degrees to her name and everything! This January she and a good friend of hers co-held an exhibition called Echo here in Reykjavík, and she was kind enough to invite us to the opening. As it happened Finnur was busy, so we plonked the kids down with their grandparents (triple hooray for local grandparents!!) and went on our separate ways.
Looking over the parking lot I used by the harbor.
The exhibition was in the main City Library building, right by the harbor. The building also houses the Photography Museum of Reykjavík, and the halls are lined with reprints from the olden-days.
A visitor looking at the epic photo-series taken out of Lotta's bedroom window, the winter where everything went to hell in a handbasket in Iceland.
The proper description of the work.
The Beginning...
... and The End. I probably should have taken a picture from the middle bit too for a bit of variety!
People milling about.
Visitors looking at the second set of images.
The second series of images was a kind of 'looking forwards, and backwards at the same time'-thing. The main view was looking out through the front windshield, but she'd strategically placed a printout from a different scene behind her, which was then visible in the rear-view mirror. Often times the two views were from Iceland vs. California, so that really resonated with me.
I forgot to ask, but that looked a bit like highway 280 to me. Oh, the memories of driving speedily past all that pretty scenery (hmm...although, now that I look at it properly, she probably should have reversed the back-image here to be driving on the correct side of the road!)
Lotta's friend had multiple things going on. On this wall were small photographs, but also photos on a pack of post-it notes, and you could take a piece of art home.
Hello there photo of a bird.
... and now you're mine!
One neat thing was that the images got more faded the further back you went.
Lotta surrounded by people.
Chatting.
Signing a show-book. Can you see the Cal-Train in the back-ground? 🙂
Hugs and kisses.
Hugging in front of the epic harmonica-book.
Lotta with her friend (whose name I didn't catch).
The massive split-personality show-book.
Same objects as at the top of the page, just seen from inside the library during a quick pit-stop.
Libraries make my nose happy, they smell so good. 🙂